Small World!

We have new neighbors to our left- our friends from Lions Park, Cliff and Julia Harty just moved in with their two elementary school age boys Everett and Simon. We love having them next door because they are really cool people and Siri loves having more kids to play with. The really crazy thing is that they both are attorneys and also graduated from Gonzaga Law. They graduated a couple of years before me though, but that means that we still overlapped by a year. We know many of the same people. Now we are living in the middle of no-where and whadya know- our neighbors are not only from Spokane, but they went to Gonzaga. It turns out they also lived only about 20 streets south of us on Spokane's South Hill.

Siri was invited to her first birthday party yesterday. She did such a great job playing with all of the kids. She only had one small temper tantrum and that was at the very end of the night after she had been playing hard and it was well past her bed time. She shared toys and interacted with the kids. She was very quiet, as she usually is with new people. There was also an infant there and a couple of times she quietly sat down next to her and gently patted her head.